Fractal analysis of spinal nociceptive neuronal responses to receptive field stimulation and to heterotopic noxious stimulation in the rat

Neuroscience Research Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-60

  Eblen Zajjur, Antonio ^a,b   Salas, Rafael ^b   Vanegas, Horacio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE CARABOBO   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Nociception; Sensory coding; Spinal dorsal horn

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0032867688     PISSN: 08936609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6769(199907/08)25:1<51::AID-NRC6>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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